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Examples of Natural Flood Management features

The images below show a range of NFM features, mostly created by our local partners in Gloucestershire.

Fields with water pooling in the corners

Field corner bunds to temporarily hold storm water, Bruern Estate (photo credit: Wild Oxfordshire)

Field with a number of new trees planted in it

Tree planting in the Twyver catchment, to improve infiltration and create roughness (photo credit: Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust)

Trees laid across a watercourse. Water is being held behind them.

Aerial image of a leaky woody dam slowing flows in the Cannop catchment, Forest of Dean.

Newly installed planter with stone, soil and plants built into the pavement

Newly created raingarden, part of Waterscapes (photo credit: Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust)

Fields with freshly dug pondsFields with water ponding

 

 

Before and after- Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust create a wetland to hold water on the outskirts of Cheltenham as part of the Waterscapes project (photo credit: Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust)

 

 

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